Parmacellidae
| Parmacellidae Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent |
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| Parmacella valenciennii | |
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| Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
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Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856 (1855) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum) |
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Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)
Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
Distribution of Parmacellidae include western Palearctic and ranges from Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.
Genera within family Parmacellidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:
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